Super Thursday

Two days after the Super Tuesday primaries, the votes were counted here at Satrichaiyaphum High in the annual student leader election.

In a landslide victory, Satang from Mathayom 4/9 (one of my students!) won the election with 798 votes. The victory capped weeks of intense campaigning, including a last-minute rally yesterday afternoon that featured a surprise appearance from the candidate’s English teacher (the whole class stood in front of the school with a giant banner and a megaphone, and I posed for a picture with the campaign team).

The school has been covered with banners and posters for weeks now and all of the candidates gave speeches yesterday prior to today’s vote. The votes were actually counted publicly in the center of campus this morning. One student counted the votes and read each one out on a megaphone and another student tallied each vote on a big whiteboard. There was a small crowd around the vote-counting station all morning listening to the returns.